# 3 – Reissue

The Quatuor Mosaïques have been ionarts’ Haydn favorites from when we first heard their groundbreaking recordings. They converted hard-boiled modern instrument insisters to the HIP-cause… or at least their potential for sublime beauty. That beauty is so pure (but also very lively and engaging), that they’re sometimes looked down upon by the other extreme, the tightest among the HIP-proponents, for “playing too beautifully and too accurately”. Bollocks. Their Haydn is the measure—well, one measure certainly—of how these quartets can sound at their very best. To see them re-released, for the first time in one place and after repeatedly being out of print, is great. If you don’t already have them, shame on you. Here’s your chance.